Hi,
I'm working wood more the neanderthal way as of today. So I'm currently buying wood already planed and thicknessed or I prepare it with handplanes, which is a lot of work.
I'm thinking about throwing in a benchtop thickness planer. For the moment I do not have the budget and space for a jointer or combo machine, which also needs a chip collector itself needing some space and budget.
This way I'll only have to joint by hand (even roughly), and let the machine do the thicknessing, with eventually flipping the board.
So my question is, can I hook the planer to a regular good quality dust collector with a cyclone separator between ? Given a 50 mm hose ?
Will it work to collect the chips ? Or do I definetly need a bigger chip collector to handle this ?
Thank you for your feedbacks an return of experience.
Regards.